Hi!
Thanx to Christophe Muller and Uwe Hansmann for your answers!
Christophe Muller wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Martin Sigbjorn wrote:
> > 1 Do drivers written in "pure java" work on Mac,Unix/Linux or Windows
> > without modifications?
>
> Yes, "pure java" drivers are called like this because they are
> based on a standard Java API that allows access to serial ports
> (i.e., javax.comm package). So even if the Comm implementation
> for a given platform makes JNI calls to C routines, they are
> portable, just like any other pure Java program.
>
> Now these drivers run on any platform *where javax.comm has been
> ported*, i.e., (to my knowledge) : Linux, Solaris and Windows95/NT.
> There is a company (http://www.serialio.com/) that has many more
> ports to propose (Mac, IRIX, HP-UX, AIX, etc.). I haven't tested
> them and would be interested in the results if you can use, for
> example, the Gemplus Java drivers ;-) with any of these ports.
Actually there is another (probably free) Mac port of javax.comm (to use
with MRJ, Macintosh Runtime Java), which I found out just an hour ago.
It's located at: http://www.vmeng.com/beard/index.html. The author says
it's a pre-release, and I havn't downloaded and tested it so I don't
know how good it works. Not much documentation on the web page, but I
guess it's a non-commercial product.
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